I love blueberries – but aside from their taste aspect, recent research has started to reveal a number of health aspects associated with their consumption. Looking around the internet, you’ll find a number of blog posts and web articles that list these benefits. In classic internet fashion, these same articles generally fail to cite their [...]

The human body has a truly amazing ability to survive. It can adapt to a variety of extreme environments and conditions that other creatures are unable to endure. It can survive through extreme heat and extreme cold, rainy seasons and dry seasons, times of plenty and times of famine. With our body’s ability to adapt, [...]

If you are like one of nearly 45 million other Americans, you plan to go on a diet sometime this year. Some statistics show that up to 50% of American women and 25% of American men consider themselves to be “on a diet” at any given time. The struggle to loose weight is continual for [...]

Knowing full-well that we will all be indulging ourselves this weekend, I thought this infographic would be a fun one to post prior to the holiday! Image Credit: Infographic courtesy of onlinenursingprograms.com

With the Thanksgiving season upon us (and retailers already pumping out Christmas advertisements with reckless glee), it is the time of year where even the most disciplined among us throw caution to the wind and start downing large plates of holiday food. For most of us, this begins with Thanksgiving, continues through company Christmas parties, [...]

What you will find on this page is a directory of sites that contain green smoothie recipes and information. The reason that I am primarily giving you a directory instead of giving you a long list of recipes is time – for those of you that have followed my previous posts about green smoothies, you [...]

Well, that’s the rumor anyways. In truth, I’m not at all convinced that green smoothies are bad for you. While researching the “cons” – the downside – of green smoothies, I came across several objections ranging from minor to alarmist. Are green smoothies really bad for you? My conclusion is no, but read on for [...]

One of our culture’s current diet trends is the smoothie – seen primarily in the proliferation of fruit smoothie desserts. Almost every fast food restaurant, diet plan and recipe website has options for fruit-filled wonders that come out of a blender. Smoothie restaurants, smoothie recipes, pre-packaged frozen smoothies, smoothie websites – fruit smoothies are everywhere. [...]

The Paleo diet has experienced a “Revolution” over the past few years – exploding in popularity, as shown by its number of adherents as well as the number of mainstream resources available (diet books, cookbooks, studies, etc). This recent infographic, courtesy of medicalbillingandcoding.org, explains the Paleo Revolution in a fun, visual format. Infographic courtesy of [...]